A group of LGBT commentators called for restraint when news first started breaking about Bruce Jenner’s potential transition plans. He initially called the transition rumors ridiculous, and along with others, I said we should believe what he told us and that I didn’t believe he was transitioning. We were wrong about…

"So I was asked to write about the Trans(-?) male/men/dude/masculine or whatever else we feel like calling ourselves, experience and feminism (or at least my personal experience and thoughts)," writes C, a trans man who wants to offer his perspective:

There is a common refrain among some trans activists that male privilege either does not exist or is insignificant to trans women's experiences. There is a common refrain among some radical feminists, largely trans exclusionary radical feminists, that trans women never lose male privilege at all and that male…

Stop!! Hibari-kun! is a manga (comic book) which ran from 1981 to 1983. It was animated in 1983 as a 35 episode television series. The plot is relatively simple, a boy named Kousaku is left parentless when his mother dies after a long illness (his father had died years before) and goes to live in Tokyo with a friend…

Piers Morgan asked Janet Mock back onto his show to explain why she and the transgender community have been so incensed by the packaging of his interview with the trans activist and author. Unfortunately, rather than listen to Mock, Morgan continued to assert that he should be free from criticism because he has…

Over at the Huffington Post, Parker Marie Molloy calls out cis, gay men for the overuse of the word "tranny," especially in performances, either in drag shows or in wider pop culture (including TV shows like How I Met Your Mother and Glee which feature everyone's favorite gay celebrity, Neil Patrick Harris).

On Saturday and Sunday, I went into central Tokyo. I actually go into the city proper only rarely because it's too expensive. It costs about $2-$3 every time you ride a train or subway (even if you only ride it one stop), a cup of coffee will set you back about $5, and given that today (Monday) is a national holiday,…

There are moments in our lives where a previously understood but not formally "known" concept becomes clear to our conscious minds. The light bulb goes off, we shriek "Eureka!" and jump out of the bath tub, running through the streets naked and we—I mean, uh, what?

This isn't the first time I have brought this up, but it bears repeating because of some recent conversations I had with fellow women's college alumna (all different women's colleges, including myself), and even my mother! When discussing how trans women engage in feminism due to their own experiences with…

In two days, Aoi Hana (Sweet Blue Flowers) will end. In less than two weeks, Hourou Musuko (Wandering Son) will also end. Both have been running for a long time now, Hourou Musuko has been running since 2002, and Aoi Hana has been running since 2004. However, they did not gain national or international attention until …

If you pay attention to LGBT issues in general and trans issues in specific, it would be hard to have missed the story of Coy Mathis's fight to use the girls' bathroom at her elementary school. On Sunday, the Colorado Civil Rights Division found that an unnecessarily hostile situation was created by the Fountain-Fort…

Yesterday marked the start of the Social Security Administration finally getting their shit together and allowing us USian trans folks the ability to change our gender marker in the SSA database without having sex reassignment surgery first. The guidelines are almost identical to those which were established for…

Being a trans woman and a feminist, I am often saddened and deeply troubled by the supposed gap or conflict between trans activism and feminism. As an intersectional feminist, I happen to know that there are many feminist/women's spaces which care deeply about trans issues and which recognise how these issues are, in…

The website TransRespect vs. Transphobia offers up a chilling interactive Google map of all known reported murders of trans people worldwide since 2008. Last update was March 12, 2013. Current report count is 1,123.